15 Sep
1997
15 Sep
'97
5:21 p.m.
Mark Kent wrote:
Rob Barron <rbarron@acrux.net> wrote:
A good way to visualize this is to imagine a long pipe with an inside diameter just large enough to hold a ping pong ball
Those of you who want the Internet described in terms of elementary particles might also be interested in a bit of detail left off by Rob Barron:
A ping pong ball is 37.2mm to 38.2mm in diameter and weighs 2.40 to 2.53 grams.
So a 40mm inside diameter seems to be called for.
It's also very important to use high-quality balls. This leads to lower BER (Ball Error Rates) Also, larger bandwidth facilities may be represented by volleyballs, basketballs and in the near future, cageballs. :) -rob